European Meteorological Society Workshop for communications professionals of NMHS (co-organised by ECMWF, EUMETSAT and WMO)

Tuesday, 9 September
08:00 08:05
Welcome/housekeeping
5m
08:05 08:10
Welcome from local meteorological service (Tanja Cegnar, Chair of the local EMS2025 organising committee)
5m
08:10 08:40
Data visualisation - how data visualisation is so effective in communicating scientific information to various audiences, and why it can prove to be a powerful tool for scientists to gain insights from data and to better communicate their results (Anna Lombardi, ECMWF)
30m
08:40 09:00
EUMETSAT satellites update (Neil Fletcher, EUMETSAT)
20m
09:00 09:30
The weather-climate connection: Weather presenters as climate communicators (Gemma Plumb, Weather Change)
30m
09:30 10:00
Coffee break and networking
30m
10:00 10:15
Morning session: Prof. Liz Bentley, Chief Executive of Royal Meteorological Society and President of EMS
15m
10:15 10:50
WMO updates including AI, World Met Day, campaign on the value of observations; update on key WMO initiatives (Brigitte Perrin, WMO)
35m
10:50 11:50
NMHS presentations - short updates (10 mins each), including: "360 degrees approach to improve stakeholders' awareness of FMI" (FMI, Nina Kukkurainen); “Developing a Beta Community in the Weather App” (Meteo Swiss, Barbara Galiker); "Lessons Learned from the Co-Development and Integration of a Subseasonal Forecast into the Yr weather service" (Lonneke van Bijsterveldt, Met Norway) ; "Tackling weather and climate misinformation" (Stephen Dixon and Oliver Claydon, Met Office communications team)
1h
11:50 11:55
Introduction to networking group and afternoon session (Filip Bukowski)
5m
11:55 12:00
Group photo
5m
12:00 13:00
Lunch
1h
13:00 16:00
Networking session/discussion-based component with best practices and experience sharing across the different services and research
3h
14:30 15:00
Coffee break and networking
30m
16:00 16:15
Afternoon session: Wrap up
15m

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